S1E39 - SEVERED Origins - "Dark City" PT1
Severed: The Ultimate Severance Podcast
Allen Stare
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🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Season 2 of "Severance" is underway as of 1/17/2025. New episodes are released at 9E/8C on Thursday evening through the end of March. Join the 'Severed' Patreon page for new episode chatroom viewing parties every Thursday night. (www.patreon.com/SeveredPod)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Adam Scott. I play Mark S on Severance, which you likely already know since you're listening to Severed, the Ultimate Severance podcast. |
| 0:14.2 | Severed, the Ultimate Severance Podcast. |
| 0:29.8 | Welcome back, Refiners, so glad to see you return to the Severed Floor for more Origins fun. |
| 0:34.5 | Hey, it may not be new episodes, but it's a good way to fill time until January 17th. |
| 0:38.7 | Oh, and yes, this is Severed, the Ultimate Severance podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:43.6 | Alan S. I've put together another installment in the Severed Origins series. If you've been listening along, you know these Origins episodes are dedicated to breaking down and examining |
| 0:48.5 | the movies, TV shows, and video games. Dan Erickson has cited as inspiration when it came to creating severance. |
| 0:55.9 | One of the earliest origins episodes I produced was a three-part breakdown of the 1999 |
| 1:00.6 | Blockbuster, The Matrix. If you haven't listened yet, do check it out. It's a great companion |
| 1:06.0 | to a 25th anniversary rewatch of The Matrix. You should be able to find the three-part |
| 1:11.0 | Matrix breakdown in the same place where you got this episode. I opened that discussion |
| 1:15.4 | with an introduction to the 1998 sci-fi movie Dark City. Dan Erickson has mentioned it several |
| 1:20.8 | times as a major influence. I kind of slammed Dark City as being too magical, too heavily reliant on alien technology |
| 1:29.3 | and not nearly as well imagined a story as the underlying structure of The Matrix. |
| 1:35.1 | The late movie critic Roger Ebert and I disagree heartily on all counts when it comes to a |
| 1:40.4 | comparison of Dark City and The Matrix. Oh, and by the way, brain boiling spoilers |
| 1:46.4 | are ahead for both Dark City and The Matrix. I'll have watch-along info in a moment. I do have to |
| 1:53.1 | admit something. I watched Dark City while prepping the Matrix Origins episodes. That was when I |
| 1:58.4 | decided I'd rather do The Matrix and kind of toss Dark City |
| 2:01.7 | aside. I did then watch it again shortly after I was finished with the Matrix Epps. Both times, |
| 2:08.7 | I felt like my memories had been sucked out and not replaced. I remember reading a detailed |
| 2:14.3 | plot synopsis after the first viewing and thinking, I don't remember any of |
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